BritSpeak: Peeling Sprouts? Really ....Sprouts?

[dudemom_2000]

Message 28287 
--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Shaun Hately" 
<drednort at a...> wrote:
> On 20 Jul 2005 at 23:37, Steve wrote:
> 
> Snip<....they would be next to impossible to peel, although, even 
if you did peel them, I
> > can't imagine what you would be peeling. We throw them into 
salads and eat them whole; rich in vitamins.
> > 
> > So... Sprouts?
>Shaun Hately wrote: 
> Brussel Sprouts - tiny little cabbage like things.
> 
> http://www.acclaimimages.com/_gallery/_SM/0059-0502-0911-
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> 
> Generally regarded by children as hideous (though I rather liked 
> them).
> 
> Yours Without Wax, Dreadnought
> Shaun Hately 
>Snip<

Not a highly regarded vegatable but having peeled the "little 
cabbages" it made me laugh when I read it.... They give me 
gas......Hubby likes them though and I actually grew them in the 
garden once and got a bumper crop of all things!

Dudemom_2000 (who takes all the knitting comments in the new book 
personally!)

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